EDHEC-Risk Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Tomas Franzén, Chief Investment Strategist with Andra AP-fonden (AP2), the second Swedish national pension fund, as chairman of its international advisory board.

Before joining AP2 at the start-up in 2001, Mr Franzén, from 1998-2001, held a position as Chief Strategist at Swedbank Markets, advising the banks’ Swedish and global clients on equity investments. Prior to that, he was Chief Strategist at Den Norske Bank from 1996-1998. During 1986-1996, he served as a senior economist at Svenska Handelsbanken in Stockholm. In the early 80’s, Mr Franzén held a position as Economist at the Swedish Employers’ Confederation.

Mr Franzén is an Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Pension Management at ICPM in Toronto. He also serves as a board member of KF Invest, Stockholm and is a member of the Investment Committee at The Foundation of Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg.

About EDHEC

Operating from campuses in Lille, Nice, Paris, London and Singapore, EDHEC is one of the world’s top 20 business schools. Fully international and directly connected to the business world, EDHEC is a school for business, rather than a business school, where excellence in teaching and research focuses on innovation to stimulate entrepreneurship and creativity. For business from birth and dedicated to business, EDHEC makes entrepreneurs for life, able to remodel or create successful businesses wherever they work.EDHEC functions as a genuine laboratory of ideas and produces innovative solutions valued by businesses. The School’s teaching philosophy, inspired by its award-winning research activities, focuses on “learning by doing”.